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Chapter 1

Globalization

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What Is Globalization?

• The globalization of markets refers to;

“The merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace”

• In many industries, it is no longer meaningful to talk about the “German market” or the “American market”

• Instead, there is only the “global market”

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Emergence of Globalization

• Falling trade barriers make it easier to sell internationally

• The tastes and preferences of consumers are converging on some global norm

• Firms help create the global market by offering the same basic products worldwide

“Grow or _ _ _”

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Globalization Of Production

• Sourcing of goods and services from locations around the globe

• Takes advantage of national differences in the cost and quality of factors of production like:

– Land– Labor– Capital

• Companies compete more effectively by:

– Lowering overall cost structure (COST)

“or”– Functionality of their product offering (DIFFERENTIATION)

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The Globalization Debate

Is the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent global economy a good thing?

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Video

Three Billion New Capitalists

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Three Billion New Capitalists

• Do you believe the message?

• What surprised you?

• What are the implications to the US?

• What should the US do?

• What are the implications to you – personally?

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The Emergence Of Global Institutions

Institutions are needed to:

• Help manage, regulate, and police the global marketplace• Promote the establishment of multinational treaties to govern the global business system

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The Emergence Of Global Institutions

Institutions created over the past half century include:

• The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)• The World Trade Organization (WTO)• The International Monetary Fund (IMF)• The World Bank• The United Nations (UN)

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Video

Passing the Torch?

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Passing the Torch

• What are your thoughts?

• Do you expect to work for a US company , Japanese, Chinese or other foreign company?

• The video message states “we’ve got to change” – Is this accepted in our general population?

• What would bring change?

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Drivers Of Globalization

Two macro factors underlie the trend toward greater globalization:

• The decline in barriers to the free flow of goods, services, and capital that has occurred since the end of World War II

• Technological change

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Declining Trade And Investment Barriers

Average Tariff Rates on Manufactured Products as Percent of Value

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Declining Trade And Investment Barriers

Lower barriers to trade and investment mean:

• That firms can view the world, rather than a single country, as their market

• That firms can base production in the optimal location

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The Role Of Technological Change

• Technological change has made the globalization of markets a reality

Important advances have occurred in:

• Microprocessors and communications• Internet • Transportation systems and efficiency

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The Role Of Technological Change

Implications of technological change for the globalization of production include:

• Lower transportation costs that enable firms to disperse production to economical, geographically separate locations

• Lower information processing and communication costs that enable firms to create and manage globally dispersed production systems

• Lower global communication costs enable networks and global media are creating a worldwide culture, and a global market for consumer products

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Video

Cherries: Development vs.

Environment

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Cherries

• What are the arguments from supporters and critics?

• If they are successful – what is the impact?

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The Changing Demographics Of The Global Economy

• Drastic change in the demographics of the world economy in the last 30 years

Four Trends are Important:

• The Changing World Output and World Trade Picture• The Changing Foreign Direct Investment Picture• The Changing Nature of the Multinational Enterprise• The Changing World Order

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The Changing World Output And World Trade Picture

• In 1960, the United States accounted for over 40% of world economic activity

• By 2006, the United States accounted for less than 20% of world economic activity

• A similar trend occurred in other developed countries

• The share of world output accounted for by developing nations is rising and is expected to account for more than 60% of world economic activity by 2020

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The Changing World Output And World Trade Picture

The Changing Demographics of

World GDP and Trade

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The Changing World Order

• Many former Communist nations in Europe and Asia

– are now committed to democratic politics and free market economies and so, create new opportunities for international businesses

• China and Latin America are also moving toward greater free market reforms

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The Global Economy Of The Twenty-first Century

• The world is moving toward a more global economic system, but globalization is not inevitable

• Globalization also brings risks like the financial crisis that swept through South East Asia in the late 1990s

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The Globalization Debate

Is the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent global economy a good thing?

• Supporters believe that increased trade and cross-border investment mean

–lower prices for goods and services–greater economic growth–higher consumer income–more jobs

• Critics worry that globalization will cause –job losses–environmental degradation–cultural imperialism of global media and MNEs

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Globalization, Labor Policies, And The Environment

– Globalization critics argue that firms

•Avoid costly efforts to adhere to labor and environmental regulations by moving production to countries where such regulations do not exist, or are not enforced

– Globalization supporters claim that

•Tougher environmental and labor standards are associated with economic progress, so as countries get richer from free trade, they get tougher environmental and labor regulations

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Globalization And National Sovereignty

• Critics of globalization worry that today’s interdependent global economy is

–shifting economic power away from national governments toward supranational organizations like the WTO, the EU, and the UN

• Supporters of globalization contend that the power of these organizations is

–limited to what nation-states agree to grant, and that the power of the organizations lies in their ability to get countries to agree to follow certain actions

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Globalization And The World’s Poor

• Critics of globalization argue that –the gap between rich nations and poor nations is getting wider

• Supporters of globalization claim that –the best way for the poor nations to improve their situation is to reduce barriers to trade and investment and implement economic policies based on free market economies, and to receive debt forgiveness for debts incurred under totalitarian regimes